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Bill would create a Montana Nurse Corps to add voluntary home‑visit nursing capacity; modeled after Physician Corps
Summary
House Bill 558 would create a Montana Nurse Corps, modeled after the existing Physician Corps, to provide volunteer in‑home care to Medicare, Medicaid and uninsured patients who lack access to timely follow‑up care, with sponsor and physicians describing the program as volunteer and intended to fill gaps in rural and underserved areas.
Representative Mary Cafero introduced House Bill 558, which would establish a Montana Nurse Corps modeled after the Montana Physician Corps. The sponsor said the corps would allow nurses to provide volunteer in‑home services to older adults, Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured Montanans to help them avoid higher levels of care by meeting medical needs in the home.
Physicians and nurses who have participated in the existing Physician Corps described…
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